Method of making wheels.



E. I. DODDS.

METHOD OF MAKING WHEELS.

APPLICATION FILED 1UNE29, 1912.

1,189,071. Patented June 27,1916.

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METHOD OF MAKING WHEELS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29, 1912.

Patented June 27, 1916.

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ETHAN I. DODDS, OF CENTRAL VALLEY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO KERNEB MANUFAO:

TUBING COMPANY, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENN- SYLVANIA.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ETHAN I. Donne, a resident of Central Valley, Orange county, New York, have invented a new and useful Method of Making Wheels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of one form of wheel made in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a similar view of another form of wheel; Fig. 3 is a partial side elevation of another form of wheel made in accordance with my intion; Figs. 4 and 5 are plan views of cut blanks from which the wheels shown in Figs. 1 and 2 respectively are formed; Fig. 6 is a partial sectional view through a pair of blanks such as shown in Fig. 4 after they have been bent into shape.

This invention relates to the method of making wheels.

The object of my invention is to provide a method for forming blanks from which wheels can be constructed, which method can readily and cheaply be carried out to form wheels which will be highly eficient, and which can be cheaply constructed.

The precise nature of my invention will be best understood by reference to the 210- companying drawings, which will now be described, it being premised, however, that various changes may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention as defined in the appended claims. In Fig. 1 I have shown a wheel which is provided with a hub member 2, to which is connected an arc-shaped strip 3 by means of bolts 4:, and connected integral with the strip 3, and extending in a radial direction therefrom, are the spokes 5, which are connected to the rim 6 by means of rivets or bolts 7.

The wheel shown in Fig. 3 is constructed from a blank such as is shown in Fig. 4, and in making the wheel just described I take a strip or sheet of metal the proper length and width, and through which I punch holes 8, 9 and 10. I then split the strip along lines as indicated at 11, from the openings 9 to the'farthest edge of the I sheet. After the strip has been slitted, I

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Patented June 27, 1916.

Application filed June'29, 1912. Serial ms. 706,349.

then bend the laterally extending strips along the line 12, and then bend the lon itudinally extending strip around a ClICllfitI form and connect the ends thereof to each other, which forms the member 3, the spokes being formed -by the laterally extending strips. Two of these blanks are then placed sideby side, as shown in Fig. 6, and the central rings are connected to a hub member,

a blank similar to that shown in Fig. 4, with i the exception that there are two holes punched in the ends of the spokes, and some of the material is removed from between I the spokes when the blank is slitted.

The advantages of my invention result from the method of making wheels in which the spokes are integrally formed with an annular-hub member; further, from the pro vision of means for securing an auxiliary hub member to the main hub member and for connecting the outer ends of the spokes to a rim member.

I claim:

1. The method of making wheels, which consists in slitting blanks in a general transverse direction to form slitted blanks each consisting of a longitudinally extending strip having a plurality of strips extending laterally therefrom, then bending the laterally extending strips at approximately right angles to the longitudinally extending strip,

then bendingthe longitudinally extending strip in the form of an are thus positioning the laterally extending strips at approximately right angles thereto, so that they extend in a radial direction from the are shaped strip, then taking two of said blanks tending strips atappro ximately right anof the radial strips; substantially as degles thereto, then bending the longitudinally scribed. 10 extending strip in the form of an are thus In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set positioning thelaterally extending strips so my hand.

5 that they extend radially from the are I ETHAN I. DODDS.

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and formin a hub about the are shaped FRED B. SMITH, strips, and rally securing a rim to the ends ABBIE G. MAY. 

